Note: Stoning to death is a pre-Islamic practice
condemned by the Islamic religeon.

Stoning in Iran,The
Washington Times,
February 27

"The condemned are wrapped head
to foot in white shrouds and buried up to their waists.

"Then the stoning begins. The stones
are specifically chosen so they are large enough to cause pain, but not
so large as tokill the condemned immediately.
They are guaranteed a slow, torturous death. Sometimes their children are
forced towatch. Their offense is usually adultery.

"This is capital punishment Iranian
[mullahs'] style, even under the so-called moderate new president, Mohammed
Khatami."

The video clip you are about
to see, is not easy to watch.
It depicts graphic scenes of people being stoned to death for "moral" offenses,
a barbaric practice all too common in Iran under the mullahs. The documentary
was smuggled out at great risk by supporters ofthe major Iranian opposition movement, the People's
Mojahedin. It is atypical only in that the victims
on this particular day were men. Most often, women are stoned to death,
usually for prostitution. If they are mothers, their children are often
required by law to attend the atrocity, to watch them "repent" for their
sins.

The film shows one man being lashed and four other men being stoned
to death. Among those in attendance are the Chief Religious Judge of the
Armed Forces and a number of Security commanders. Enshrouded in white sheets
and tied to restrain them, the victims are buried up to the waist in sand.
Then they are slowly tortured to death. To prolong their torment, the medieval
law of the mullahs even stipulates that stones too small to cause sufficient
pain, and those so large as to kill the victims too swiftly, are illegal
at a stoning.